Standard Chartered PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2015

Dec 14, 2015

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STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

渣打集團有限公司

(Incorporated as a public limited company in England and Wales with registered number 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

For filings with the FCA include the annex

For filings with issuer exclude the annex

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		Standard Chartered PLC
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			☑
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached			☐
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments			☐
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights			☐
Other (please specify): See Additional Information in Box 13			☑
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited
Fullerton Management Pte Ltd
Dover Investments Pte. Ltd.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv	Nortrust Nominees Limited
Lynchwood Nominees Limited
Chase Nominees Limited
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:v	10 December 2015

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1. Date on which issuer notified: 11 December 2015

2. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii Above 17% to 15%

3. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights x
			Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
ORD USD 0.50	402,151,076
(See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)	100,537,769
(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	NIL	NIL	129,262,845
(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	NIL	15.77%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	Nominal	Delta
					NIL	NIL

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Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
129,262,845 (based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	15.77%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: ^{XXI}
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Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Indirect) – 517,051,383 shares (129,262,845 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) 15.77% (See Additional Information in Box 13)
Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (Indirect) – 517,051,383 shares (129,262,845 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) = 15.77% (See Additional Information in Box 13)
Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (Indirect through the nominees listed in Box 4) – 517,051,383 shares (129,262,845 voting rights (based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) = 15.77% (See Additional Information in Box 13)
Proxy Voting:
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10. Name of the proxy holder:	NIL
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	NIL
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	NIL
13. Additional information:	(1) 517,051,383 shares are held by Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (“Dover”) through the nominees listed in Box 4 as of 11 December 2015. Dover is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (“FMPL”) which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”).
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	(2) Notification using shares in issue figure of 3,277,989,327 (819,497,331 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) as at close of business on 10 December 2015.
	(3) The change in the holding of Dover, FMPL and Temasek from 17.19% to 15.77% is as a result of a combination of (i) increased number of shares and voting rights in issue pursuant to the rights issue; and (ii) a disposal/termination of a right to recall lent shares.

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A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form for legal entities)	Standard Chartered PLC
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD.
Phone number	020 7885 7456
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)
B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
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Full name	Lee Davis
Contact address	Standard Chartered PLC
1 Basinghall Avenue,
London, EC2V 5DD
Phone number	020 7885 7456
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)	Group Corporate Secretariat

C: Additional information

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered PLC comprises:

Chairman: Sir John Wilfred Peace

Executive Directors: Mr William Thomas Winters; Mr Andrew Nigel Halford and Mr Alun Michael Guest Rees

Independent Non-Executive Directors: Mr Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Ms Gay Huey Evans; Mr Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Ms Ruth Markland; Mr Paul David Skinner, CBE; Dr Lars Henrik Thunell and Ms Jasmine Whitbread